Informit Literature & Culture Collection Backfiles

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Informit Literature & Culture Collection Backfiles

Informit Literature & Culture Collection Backfiles

As the backfile component to the Informit Literature & Culture Collection, the Informit Literature & Culture Collection Backfiles includes every issue of Australia’s best known literary and cultural magazines from 1939 – December 2004.

The literary magazine is an important part of Australia’s literary and cultural heritage. Small publications have proved a vital conduit for emerging and established writers to develop their craft and to engage with central ideas and debates about Australian literary, cultural, and social life. For the first time, titles such as Meanjin and Southerly will be available through Informit from cover to cover.

Created in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, the Informit Literature & Culture Collection is an essential reference database for academic, school and public libraries and for teachers and students of literary studies, cultural studies and creative writing courses. Researchers and students of Australian literature, history and society will find this Collection a rich source of fiction, poetry, cultural politics and the ideas that have helped define the unique Australian identity.